1. an incident or event that is part of a progression or a larger sequence: "south africa may remain one of history's most tragic episodes” ( bayard Rustin).
2. one of a series of related events in the course of a continuous account. see synonyms at occurrence.
3. A portion of a narrative that relates an event or a series of connected events and forms a coherent story in itself; an incident: an episode in a picaresque novel.
4. A separate part of a serialized work, such as a novel or play.
5. A separate program that is part of a television or radio series.
6. A section of a classic greek tragedy that occurs between two choric songs.
7. music A passage between statements of a main subject or theme, as in a rondo or fugue.

1. an incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
2. an installment of a drama told in parts, as in a tv series.

1. A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

1. A separate incident, story, or action introduced in a poem, narrative, or other writing for the purpose of giving greater variety; an incidental narrative or digression separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.
2. an incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events: as, an episode of the war; an episode in one's life.
3. in music, an intermediate or digressive section of a composition, especially in a contrapuntal work, like a fugue.

1. a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events
2. a part of a broadcast serial
3. film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
4. a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series